Release date: November 20, 2020
Opening line: (Dot) "Never mansplain-y!"
Bun Control: The Warners deal with an infestation of bunnies on the studio lot.
Ex-Mousina: The Brain invents a robotic "son" that turns on him.
Bloopf: The Warners launch a new app.
Tropes found in "Bun Control":
- Animesque: During a fight sequence against Dwayne, the Warners adopt an anime art style, similar to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. According to the artist Genevieve Tsai (source)
, Yakko's design is based on Kamina from Gurren Lagann, while Dot is based on Ryuko from Kill la Kill. Being animated by Studio Yotta helped with this. - Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Yakko says that fearmongering is the fourth-worst kind of -mongering, "Right after war, rumor, and fish."
- Bait-and-Switch: The Warners honestly thought the dingoes would have eaten the bunnies.
- Big Brother Instinct: When Wakko gets hurt during the anime sequence, Yakko goes absolutely ballistic, complete with Battle Aura, and attacks Dwayne head on.
- Cold Open: Before the theme song, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot meet their new neighbor and adopt bunnies, which unbeknownst to them, they start to cause chaos around the studio lot.
- Comically Missing the Point: At the end of the episode, Wakko is still confused on what the episode was an allegory for. His siblings don't tell him what it was.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In the anime-style sequence, despite their newfound mega-powers, the Warners can't lift a finger against Dwayne and are promptly defeated.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Lampshaded; Dot and later Yakko all but flat-out admit that this episode is an allegory for America's gun control debate, particularly with the part where Australia handles the problem a lot better. The only Warner who didn't get it was Wakko. Nora Rita Norita even references the Second Amendment.
- Also serves as a double-pronged bonus: Australia suffered a problem several decades ago when rabbits were carelessly introduced into its already-stable ecosystem, breeding rapidly and overtaking grazing lands meant for cattle and sheep. Efforts were made to eradicate the intrusive pests, with some successes, but the great country-continent still hasn't fully recovered to this day from the bunny invasion.
- Double Entendre: When Dwayne LaPistol tells the Warners to look at his buns, the camera zooms on his buttocks. Lampshaded by Yakko saying his trademark "Good night, everybody".
- Explosive Breeder: The bunnies start multiplying the morning after Dwayne starts distributing them, to the point where they literally flood the WB lot.
- Hulking Out: LaPistol becomes a muscular bruiser during his anime-style battle with the Warners.
- Insistent Terminology: The little rabbits Dwayne spreads around the studio are only ever referred to as "buns", never bunnies or rabbits. This is to emphasize the allegory.
- Land Down Under: When Wakko calls Australia to "solve the issue of bun violence", he hears didgeridoo sounds in response. Australia proceeds to send a paratrooper unit of dingoes who only speak in stereotypical Australian phrases like "G'day mate", "How you goin'", and "Cheers, mate". Played with in that, instead of eating the buns, the dingoes initiate a "bun buyback" program.
- Musicalis Interruptus: Yakko's song about Giuseppe Arcimboldo is interrupted by the doorbell ringing.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dwayne LaPistol is basically a caricature of NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, complete with an exaggerated Deep South accent (ironic, since LaPierre's family is from New York).
- Punny Name To go with the allegory of this episode, the antagonist is named Dwayne LaPistol. (Subverted in the fact that the dude just sells bunnies.)
- Shout-Out: Mrs. Norita tells the Warners to fill out a complaint and take it to the nineteenth floor, and Wakko objects "But there is no nineteenth floor!"
- Stealth Pun: The two outrageously muscular buns in the episode are jacked rabbits.
- Transformation Is a Free Action: During the Animesque sequence, Dot summons a magical bow (and strikes a pose). However, Dwayne quickly attacks her before she even has a chance to use it.
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: At the end of the segment, Dot expresses a desire to never do thinly veiled allegories again.
Tropes found in "Ex-Mousina":
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: B.R.A.I.N. does try to take over the world, but that’s what he was designed to do. However, he turns against Brain to do so, whom he was built to aid in such an endeavor.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When Pinky tries to use B.R.A.I.N. as a microwave, it asks him "Defrost, popcorn, or enslave all humanity?"
- Brick Joke:
- Pinky wonders if Brain is working on "a razor cartridge with six blades". Later, when B.R.A.I.N. is unimpressed by Brain's ideas for evil schemes, Brain suggests designing "a razor cartridge with six blades" while desperately trying to come up with new ideas.
- At the beginning of the segment, Pinky asks Brain, "If I ate myself, would I become twice as big or completely disappear?" Near the end, he asks B.R.A.I.N the same question, which causes a Logic Bomb shorting out the robot.
- Fun with Acronyms: Brain builds the "Binary Rodent Artificially Intelligent Nanotechnology", or B.R.A.I.N. for short.
- Gone Horribly Right: B.R.A.I.N sets out to take over the world alright... for himself.
- Good-Times Montage: The "Bonding" song depicts Brain and his robot son teaming up to do simple father-son activities that double as crimes to acquire parts for Brain's latest scheme.
- Job-Stealing Robot: Brain builds a robot version of himself to replace Pinky as his assistant in taking over the world. When the robot turns against him, Pinky ends up helping him stop it.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After B.R.A.I.N. proclaims that he will destroy Brain and take over the world for himself, he gives him this on how Brain ultimately brought this upon himself:B.R.A.I.N.: You created me with one sole purpose, and it was to take over the world no matter what obstacles I encounter. And given your narcissistic implementation of such a stern pecking order, you will never let me spread my wings and fly. Ergo: [Death Glare] you must die.
- Robot Me: Brain builds a robot of himself to replace Pinky in helping him take over the world.
- Shout-Out: The title is based on the robot thriller Ex Machina.
- Turned Against Their Masters: The obvious outcome of Brain building a robot version of himself.
Tropes found in "Bloopf":
- Blipvert: As a parody of micro-video platforms like Vine, "Bloopf" is for sharing videos that are only one-tenth of a second long, with the result that a "top ten trending videos on Bloopf" list literally lasts only one second.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The kids parody Steve Jobs.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: The episode ends with the siblings getting tangled up in their three-headed suit as they try to leave.
